Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[Gregory Piñero]

On 7/17/06, ubuntu at rio.vg <ubuntu at rio.vg> wrote:
> That benchmark looks a bit low, unless you're running on an older
> laptop... try just running `hdparm /dev/hda` and post the output... I'm
> betting that, for some reason, DMA wasn't enabled on the drive...

Here's what I got:
chiefinnovator at MAIN1:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/hda
Password:

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 30515/255/63, sectors = 490234752, start = 0


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Gregory Piñero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
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